Taylor Swift Will Get Extra 'Karma' Points With Ice Spice Remix Offset Still Finds It Too Painful to Talk About Takeoff: 'I Get Through My Day Thinking It's Fake' The strongest offering is the final track, the ESG-gone-gentrified instrumental “Bloodwork,” if only because Smith’s petulant vocal takes a back seat it sounds tailor-made for soundtracking a streaming series’ set piece that follows a chemically altered beautiful person’s descent into some personal hell.īill Lee, Jazz Bassist and Father of Spike Lee, Dead at 94 ![]() The burbling “Sex” has a slightly more existential bent, although the “I’m Too Sexy” cadence of lines like “Sex, to me/It’s just a mystery/And a lie we tell” give the joke away its laptop-grime-covered coda does at least provide a neat sonic wrinkle. Debut single “Girls” has a Rapture-via- The Man Show feel, its horniness trying to come off as nonchalant, but mostly feeling joyless. More than 12-ish minutes, The Sex EP rages through a karaoke bar stocked with blogged-about cuts from 20 years ago, with maybe a 1975 track thrown in for current-relevance measure. Listening to The Sex EP doesn’t do much to ease the feeling that the songs are only tangential to Smith’s nascent project’s overall point. ![]() The Dare, which released its debut EP last week, feels like a musical pseudo-event, existing only for the purpose of feeding its perpetual-motion publicity machine. To even comment on the Dare, the provoca-pop project of 27-year-old private-school substitute teacher turned downtown NYC enfant celebre Harrison Patrick Smith, is to have lost the game. TheDareEPRelease TheDareEPRelease.jpg - Credit: Ben Taylor
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